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The Kathy Griffin Debacle: Yet Another ‘Everyone’s An A-Hole’ scenario

Do I look shocked? I’m trying to do my best ‘shocked’ face. No? Eh, whatever.Source: TMZ

Well, I think I’ve let this issue smolder long enough where I can safely discuss it.

For those who somehow managed to escape the raging dumpster fire that is the current American political landscape (god, I envy you…), there was a big to-do amongst the bizarre political choices and ego-centric tweets when stand-up comedian, writer, and actress Kathy Griffin took her criticism to the extreme by posing for photos while standing with a blood-soaked head resembling that of Donald Trump.

Naturally, folks lost their minds. People immediately ran to verbally lambaste and defend Kathy in a flurry of unhelpful rage.

Let’s keep this short and sweet, shall we? I have absolutely NO LOVE for Trump as a light search on my Twitter feed will reveal. I think he’s immature, incompetent, self-serving, and rude. What’s more, he lacks the intelligence to run his own business effectively, let alone an entire country.

Of course, there’s also the plaintiff cries of how, not long ago, we endured 8 years of similar threats to Barrack Obama and that those offended now are being hypocritical. Rest assured, those people do exist and are just throwing a temper tantrum about THEIR idol being mocked at best and genuinely horrible human beings at worst. But, just because “they” did it first doesn’t give “us” the right to be just as terrible. Don’t you hear how infantile that sounds when you describe it?

Besides, such thinking disregards those who refuse to condone such behavior and robs them of their voice in the matter. There are some people out there who would call Kathy AND the Anti-Obama folks out equally for being childish, barbaric or both… people like me, for instance.

I’m of the opinion that we should be living in a world where we are mature and intelligent enough to recognize such obvious hyper-inflated bombast through violence as the weak attempts at humor/social commentary that they are and not give such people the dignity of occupying valuable space in our brains. I, for one, put to much value on my thoughts to pay attention to idle threats and long to hear some actual, meaningful dialogue on the topic that can ACTUALLY fix the problem so that I and everyone else on this blue-green space rock that I love so dearly can go on living constructive and meaningful lives.

In conclusion, I offer this message to the world; put away your effigies and torches, calm your butt-hurt feelings down, and try to contribute to the discussion on how to fix what you – in all likelihood – helped to break for a change.